Constituting Americans [electronic resource] : cultural anxiety and narrative form / Priscilla Wald.

By: Wald, PriscillaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995Description: xiv, 390 pSubject(s): Group identity -- United States -- History | Narration (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- United States | Political culture -- United States -- History | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | National characteristics, American, in literature | Group identity in literature | Anxiety in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: E169.1 | .W25 1995Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition -- 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism -- 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History -- 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity -- Coda: An American "We".
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index.

Introduction -- 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition -- 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism -- 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History -- 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity -- Coda: An American "We".

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